Saturday
August 28, 2004
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Ketchikan: Governor
& First Lady Celebrate 50th Wedding Anniversary -
Congratulations to Alaska's Governor and First Lady who are
celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary today. On August 28,
1954, Frank and Nancy Murkowski were married in Ketchikan in
a double ring ceremony. Almost fifty years later, members of
the Murkowski family surprised the couple during the Fourth of
July parade in Ketchikan by displaying Happy Anniversary signs.
Photographer Carl Thompson was present to capture the moment.
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Saturday - August 28, 2004
Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... The Ketchikan
Fire Department has ordered McGraw Construction to correct what
it calls major violations of state and city fire codes on the
renovation of Schoenbar Middle School. As Deanna Garrison reports,
McGraw says the company is working to comply with the codes and
that most of the issues have already been addressed.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Saturday am - August 28, 2004
POW: Listen to this KRBD story... Most of Prince
of Wales Island was without long distance, internet and cell
phone service for much of Friday. From Craig, Jay Marble reports.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Saturday am - August 28, 2004
Ketchikan: Listen to this KRBD story... Beginning next
week, the Ketchikan Gateway Borough will begin fining people
who leave garbage exposed in the back of their pickup trucks.
As Deanna Garrison reports, the new law affects vehicles parked
in airport parking lots.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Saturday am - August 28, 2004
Craig: Listen to this KRBD story... Craig may be
one of the first cities to join a new program that allows communities
to purchase halibut and sablefish individual quotes, or IFQs.
Jay Marble has this report.
KRBD - Ketchikan Public Radio
- linked Saturday am - August 28, 2004
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Mike Booz of the University
of Alaska Anchorage's Environment and Natural Resources Institute
holds up a rock with caddis fly larvae clinging to the underside.
Photo by Ned Rozell
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Alaska: Fingerprinting
the waterways of Alaska by Ned Rozell - With the blackened
forest exploding in dust with every step, four scientists hiked
to the muskeg bank of this clear-running stream off the Steese
Highway with a goal of finding its personality and how fire might
have altered it.
Was the stream rich with wriggling
larvae that fish prefer, or was it home to fewer insects, possibly
a sign of human disturbance? Was the creek flowing cold from
the chilled groundwater that fed it, or had the charred tundra
warmed it? How much nitrogen and other dissolved nutrients did
the water hold?
After a few weeks of hard work
in hip boots and time in the lab, the scientists would know a
lot more about Cripple Creek, one of 11 Cripple Creeks in Alaska.
This one, flowing into the Chatanika River, is part of a larger
study on the Tanana River watershed, where scientists are trying
to take the chemical, biological, and physical fingerprint of
50 streams to use in future comparisons.
The project is part of a national
program of stream monitoring in the western United States. Doug
Dasher of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's
Water Quality Division was supervising the sampling of the Tanana
watershed streams, hoping to check out 50 of 200 potential waterways
in the summers of 2004 and 2005. An active fire season in the
Interior had added chaos to Dasher's schedule, but his stream
specialists had by mid-August visited creeks from Manley to the
Alaska Range and sampled 28 by the time they reached Cripple
Creek. Active fires and dried-up creek beds added to the challenge
of the sampling teams, which included students from UAA and UAF.
- More...
Saturday - August 28, 2004
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Ketchikan Regular Election
Tuesday - Oct. 5th
Filing for local office
began August 10th and ends Sept. 7th at 5:00 pm.
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City
Election Information
City Council: Two 3-year seats & One 1-year
seat
- Tom Coyne filed 08/10/04:
Council 3-Year Term
- Lew Williams filed 08/16/04:
Council 3-Year Term
- George Lybrand filed 08/17/04:
Council 1-Year Term
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KGB
Election Information
Assembly - 2 three-year terms
- Mike Painter filed 08/10/04:
Assembly 3-Year Term
School Board - Two three-year terms & One 1-year
term
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June Allen Column
 Harold
Gillam: A Tragic Final Flight; Ketchikan remembers the search
- Harold Gillam was among the boldest of those gutsy pioneer
bush pilots who painted Alaska's early aviation history on an
enormous canvas of rugged and unforgiving wilderness often cradled
in the foulest, most extreme weather on the planet.
Oldtime pilots said that there
were three kinds of Alaska weather: clear and unlimited, called
Pan Am weather; then ordinary weather, and lastly, there was
"Gillam weather." While more prudent pilots sat out
the worst days, the quiet-loner Gillam would shake his head and
say, "The weather's never as bad as it looks." - Read
the rest of this story by June Allen...
Tuesday - August 17, 2004
 Ketchikan's
'Fish House Tessie'; She was proud of the nickname
Fairbanks:
Golden Heart City; A story of its founding
Remembering
'Swede' Risland (1915-1991);The town's most memorable logger
Alaska's
Deepwater Highway; A part of Alaska history
Ketchikan's
American Legionnaires; Here's to 'the boys' of Post #3 -
Ketchikan's
Cruise Ship Industry; A light-hearted look at its origins
Ketchikan's
First City Players; Did you hear that applause?
A
biography of Alaska's herring: A little fish of huge importance...
Read more stories by June Allen...
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Ketchikan Charter Commission
Website
 Download the Draft Charter
Petition
(201 pages, 944KB)
Public Hearing noon
Saturday, August 28th in the City Council Chambers.
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